The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-11 00:00:00

E CORONATION. B Y the (From last n i g h t ' s G azette.) QUEEN.—.A PROCLAMATION, declaring her Majesty's fit rther Pleasure touching her Royal Coronation, and the Sole trinity thereof. VICTORIA, R. Alinig' qty Vbe weas having resolved, by the favour and blessing of God, to celebrate the solemnity of our Royal Coron ation, upon Tuesday the 26th day of June next, at our P alae• a at Westminster ; and having accordingly signified our R oyal. pleasure concerning the same, by our Proclamation, date the fourth day of April instant, whereby, amongst other we thought fit, out of our princely care for the preser. v ation of the lawful rights and inheritances of our loving sub eets whom it might concern, to declare, that, by our Corn inissi on under the Great Seal of Great Britain, we had ap- PoiD ted and authorised all the Lords and others who have been sworn of our most Honourable Privy Council, or a ny five or more of them, to receive, hear, and determine the Petitions a n d c l a i ms w hi c h should be to them exhibited b y any of our loving subjects in this behalf ; and that we should. appoint our said Commissioners for that purpose to littb in the Coun c il Ch am b er at Whitehall, upon Saturday e twenty-eighth day of this instant, at eleven o'clock in the mornin g of the same day, and from time to time to adjourn as to them should seem meet, for the execution of our said Com mission;and whereby we did also signify unto all and every Our I " 2l7 ing . subjects w h om i t m i g h t concern, t h at our w il l and pleasure was, an d we did thereby strictly charge and command all persons, of w h at ran k or quality soever they might be, who, either upon our l etters to them directed, or by reason of their olEees da or tanures, or otherwise, w e re t o d o an y serv i ce at t h e sa id y or tirae of our Coronation, that they would duly give their attendan ce accordingly, in all respects furnished and appointed as to • so. gre a t a so l emn i ty apperta i neth, and answerable to the d fail eld di g n ities and pl a c es w hi c h every one o f t h em respect i ve l y ail a s di Crtey enjoyed, and of th a t th e y or an y o f th em , were not to would answer the contrary at their perils, unless upon t P e cial reasons by ourself un d er our h an d to b e a ll owed, we sl'could dispense with any of their services or attendances. A lid whereas by a report made unto us by a Committee of the Lords of our Most Honourable Privy Council, to whom Ile thought fit to refer the arrangement of preparations n ßcessary upon the occasion of the aforesaid Coronation, t/ to said Committee of our said Privy Council have in bedience to our commands, whereby they were specially d irected to make the said arrangements as much abridged and a s economical as might be compatible with a strict regard to tl se solemnity and importance of the occasion, and a due compliance with the provisions of existing S tatutes in that behalf, reported to us their opinion, that it m ay be proper for us to omit that part of the ceremonial w hid' usually takes place in Westminster Hall, and that Part thereof which consists of the procession, and that we should give directions for the celebration of that part only (as it might be hereafter curtailed) which is solem niz ed in Westminster Abbey ; and the said Com ttee of our Privy Council have further submit ted to us, that in dispensing with the ceremonies which have heretofore taken place in Westminster-Hall, it ma 7 be proper that we should dispense with the services and attendance of those who, by ancient customs and usages, as also in regard of divers tenures of sundry manors, lands, and other hereditaments, do claim and aro bound to do and perform divers several services at the time of our said Co ronation, which services would have been performed in West minster-Hall, or an the procession, and at the same time that we would be graciously pleased to declare, that such dispensa tion should in no wise interfere with the rights and privileges they may claim as touching the performances of the said services at any future Coronation of the Kings or Queens of this realm : and whereas the said Committee of our said Privy Council have further represented unto us, that it may be ad visable for us to issue our Royal Proclamation to that effect, We, therefore, in compliance with the advice so dutifully tend%sred to us by our Privy Council, and having at heart the ease of our loving subjects, do, by this our Royal Proclama tion, signify and declare that it is our Royal will and pleasure, that such part only of the solemnity and ceremony of our Royal Coronation, as is usual upon the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of this realm, solemnized in Westminster .Abbey, shall take place ; and we do further, by this our Royal Proclamation, signify and declare, that we do dispense - upon the occasion of this our Coronation, with the procession, and with the services and attendance of all persons who, 'by ancient custom and usage, or in regard of their tenures of any manors, lands, or other hereditaments, do claim, and are bound to do and perform, any services at the t ime of the Coronation, which, according to ancient custom or usage, are to be performed in Westminster Hall, or in the procession; such dispensation, nevertheless t t ( i ) ,, b e altogether without prejudice to the rights and preroga dee"f our successors, Kings and Queens of this realm, to Maud a n d require the performance of the said several ser f,,es at any f u t ure C oronat i on of the Kings or Queens of 7 realm we do h ere by f ur th er grac i ous l y declare, that the sake shall not interfere with the rights and privileges (31 ,. any of our loving su bj ec t s , t o c l a i m t h e performances of Sitell several services, or any of them, at any future Coro nation : and we do hereby, in further compliance W ith the advice of the aforesaid Committee of our Privy Council, declare, and make known, to all such of our lov'm g subjects as it may concern, that it seems good to , that the Committee of Claims shall, upon the occasion of Vais our Coronation, but without prejudice for the future to the rights and claims of any of our loving subjects, exclude from their consideration such claims as may be submitted to -t hem, in respects of rights or services connected with the 'Parts of the ceremonial heretofore performed in Westminster -hall, and with the procession. Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, in the first year of our reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. Earl Marshal's Office, 30, Great George-street, Westminster, April 10, 1838. MR Queen' s M ost E xce l lent Majesty having been pleased to command me, as Earl Marshal of England, forthwith to Prepare and countersign letters to be passed under the royal 51gn manual, requiring the attendance of the Peers And Peeresses of Great Britain at the solemnity of the -Royal Coronation of her Majesty ; and the Queen *h aving been further pleased to command me to prepare such letters also for those Peers of that part of the United Kingdo m of Great Britain and Ireland, called Ireland, who sat and voted in the House of Lords of Ireland before the Union, or whose right to sit and vote therein, or to vote at the elec tion of a representative Peer for Ireland has, on claim made on their behalf, been admitted by the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, and who are not now Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, I do hereby re quest that all those Peers, who, in conformity to the above regulations, are entitled to assist at the Solemnity of her Majesty's Royal Coronation, will be pleased to transmit their respective addresses to Sir William Woods, Deputy Garter King of Arms, at this Office, and that the Dowager-Peeresse s and Peeresses who may claim to attend at the said Coronation, will be also pleased to transmit their respective Christian names and addresses to Sir William Woods, in order that their letters of summons may be pre pared without delay. NORFOLK, Earl Marshal. Earl Marshal's-office, 30, Great George-street, Westminster, April 10, 1838. The Earl Marshal's Order concerning the Robes, Coronets, &c., which are to he worn by the Peers at the Coronation of her Most Sacred Majesty Queen Victoria. These are to give notice, to all Peers who attend at the Coronation of her Majesty, that the robe or mantle of the Peers be of crimson velvet, edged with miniver, the cape furred with miniver pure, and powdered with bars or rows of ermine, according to their degree, viz.-- Barons, two rows. Viscounts, two rows and a half. Earls, three rows. Marquisses, three rows and a half. Dukes, four rows. The said mantles or robes to be worn over the full Court dregsuniform, or regi menta l s usua ll y worn at h er M a j esty ' s „, wi -rorn s . :e henirg ccronets to be of sil ver g ilt ; th e ca p s o f cr i mson na lyet t urned up with er m i ne , w i t h a go ld tasse l on t h e top ; no jewels or precious stones are to be set or used in the eQr,o...nets, or counterfeit pearls instead of silver balls. sil coronet of a Baron to have, on the circle or rim, six er balls at equal distances. The coronet of a Viscount to have, on the circle, sixteen Clver balls. Th e co ronet of an Earl to have, on the circle, eight silver t , 3 1 raised upon points, with gold strawberry leaves between ist r - c oronet of a M arqu i s to h ave , on th e c i rc l e , f our gold littlewy leaves an d f our s il ver b a ll s a l ternate l y , t h e latter a raise leaves on points above the rim. stra e coronetav of a Duk e t o h a ve, on the circle, ei g ht go ld wherry lees. By her Majesty's command, NORFOLK, Earl Marshal. Earl Marshal's Office, 30, Great George-street, Westminster, Th e April 10, 1838. isc_Earl .Marshal's Order concerning the Robes, Coronet., 4 , e., which are to be worn by the Peeresses at the Corona. LlCin Thes her Most Sacred Majesty Queen Victoria. Coronation of her Majesty, that the robes or mantles apper3 taining to their respective ranks are to be worn over the usual full Court dress. That the robe or mantle of a Baroness be of crimson velvet, the cape whereof to be furred with miniver pure, and powdered with two bars or rows of ermine ; the said mantle to be edged round with miniver pure two inches in breadth, and the train to be three feet on the ground, the coronet to be according to her degree, viz., a rim or circle with six pearls upon the same, not raised upon points. That the robe or mantle of a Viscountess be like that of a Baroness, only the cape powdered with two rows and a half of ermine, the edging of the mantle two inches as before, and the train a yard and a quarter; the coronet to be according to her degree; viz., a rim or circle with pearls thereon, sixteen in number, and not raised upon points. That the robe or mantle of a Countess be as before, only the cape powdered, with three rows of ermine, the edging three inches in breadth, and the train a yard and a half; the coronet to be composed of eight pearls raised upon points or rays, with small strawberry leaves between, above the rim. That the robe or mantle of a Marchioness be as before, only the cape powdered with three rows and a half of ermine, the edging four inches in breadth, the train a yard and three quarters ; the coronet to be composed .of four strawberry leaves and four pearls raised upon points of the same height as the lep.ves alternately, above the rim. That the robe or mantle of a Duchess be as before, only the cape powdered with four rows of ermine, the edging five inches broad, the train two yards ; the coronet to be composed of eight strawberry leaves, all of equal height, above the rim. And that the caps of all the said coronets be of crimson velvet, turned up with ermine, with a tassel of gold on the top. By Her Majesty's command, NORFOLK, Earl Marshal. CHURCH RATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your paper of the 9th of February, you made some observations on the case of the Rev. T. Shakspeare, of Hillsby, Gloucestershire, a Dissenting Minister, whose goods had been distrained for Is. due on a Church -rate, and I now beg to give you the sequel. The Chapel Warden sold the goods, and like a good, easy man felicitated himself on the easy victory he had achieved over " the malignant Baptist;" but the " refractory spirit" of " the trumpeter of sedition, blasphemy, and what is worse than all, of schism," again burst forth to the astonishment of the bewildered Warden, in the shape of a writ for the trespass committed by him in the distraint which turned out to be illegal, and the poor Warden gladly submitted to a compro mise by paying the costs of the action, and 101. for the trespass, (which sum has been distributed in bread to the poor) and also repurchasing and returning the goods distrained. You may well say " let this truly Christian example be generally followed, and Church -rates will soon be matter of history." April 6, 1838. A CONSTANT READER. CHURCH -RATES.—During the past year, goods of the value of 561. 15s. 6d. have been distrained for Church -rates, amounting to 171. 13s. in the town of Dudley alone. These goods were the property of thirteen persons of various reli gious denomination. In the house of Mr. Thos. Beazley, schoolmaster, two desks, valued at 41. 10s. were to defray a rate of 2s. ld. How long is this cruel destruction of property to be permitted ; and how long shall the honest Dissenter be adjudged to pay the penalty of a conscientious adherence to his own views and form of religion ? SHAMEFUL SEIZURE FOR CHURCH -RATES, AT BARNSLET•— A:seizure was lately made upon the property of Mr. Sedg wick, one of the Society of Friends, for Church -rates, amount ing to 21. Ss., and constables' expenses 13s. 5d., which de serves more than a passing notice of reprobation for the manner in which it was conducted by the constables. About a month since, these individuals took a horse and cart to G. Sedgwick's house, he being then in London, and his wife ill in bed. They proceeded in their business without reading the warrant, though a servant was standing by, and took eight hair-seated mahogany chairs, valued at eight guineas, and a Pembroke table, worth 21. 10s. It appears thit furniture worth nearly ill., was taken for 21. 14s. Id. On the sale, however, those parties contributed to turn the 11/. into 3/. 35., for which the goods were disposed of. So much for the honesty of the con stables, and other individuals concerned. Mr. Sedgwick was insulted by Ss. I Id. being returned to him, as the difference between the rate and the value of the goods sold. It appears that when the seizure was made, one of the parties engaged in it proposed taking a sofa, but the cart would not hold it, and therefore it was left behind ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stri,—lnterested for nearly half a century in the trade and commerce of this Metropolis, I have not been an inattentive observer of the great improvements which have taken place in our modes of communication, to which steam lays the first claim ; while the results of railroads have been far more rapid in their development, and more astonishing in their effects, than could have been conceived ; and more particularly with re ference to those lines principally dependant on London, of which first stands the London and Greenwich—the amount of passenger-traffic has astonished the most sanguine calculators, and, upon the originally proposed outlay, would have paid a very handsome per centage. Profiting by the errors and enor mous expenditure of this line, the path appears clear as it respects those now in progress ; and public feeling and interest, I am happy to see, go on cordially with this view, which is most strongly displayed by the value now and a few months since. To enumerate a few only, we have— Brighton lately 7s. 6d. now 7/. per share. Blackwell - 71. Croydon 5l. dig. 21. prem. Thames Haven Of those nearer completion, viz. the London and Birming ham, Great Western, and Southampton, the almost universal interest taken is resolved by the enormous amount of public capital embarked, and the large premium that capital bears. But, most decidely, I am induced to consider the Thames Haven the first and most important ; from its locality it would appear to be in fact the sea -port of this great Metropolis. The noble Thames has heretofore been sufficient for all the purposes of maritime communication ; but our population and trade has so increased, that it is now only so as a pathway to the Docks, and to the smaller craft, boats, lighters, &c.—the larger classes, and especially our steam navy, if it may be so called, requiring this port out of the river. The two great objects in all communication, whether by land or by water, viz., saving in time and expense, will be ac complished by the Thames Haven, to an extent hardly to be contemplated ; and my object at present is to call public at tention to this undertaking, with a view of creating that inte rest, and eliciting that information from others, which w ill place it in its proper position. The bearings of its benefits are so extensive, as put forth in its public documents, in the conveyance of passengers; in the'reduction and equalization of the price of coals, are in itself sufficient to draw public attention to it ; in the facility of bringing fish to market, and in the preven tion of accidents and loss of life in the river, which are all questions for deep consideration to the philanthropist and po litical economist. The results, in profit, I leave to others to calculate; but they must be great in proportion to the good done. I am, Sir, your obedient servant. A MERCHANT AND LOOKER-ON. April, 1838. MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET. --- ( From the M orn i ng P apers of this day.) MORNING CIIRONICLE.—This was settling day in the English Stock Market, and, nothing having transpired to affect the value of our public securities in any way, almost the whole attention of the brokers and jobbers was directed to the adjust ment of the accounts. It was not attended with any difficulty, and occasioned no alteration in the quotations. Nothing of any consequence has been transacted to-day in the Share Market, and there is scarcely any alteration to notice in the quotations. The exportation of the precious metals from the port of London for the week ending Saturday last, the 7th instant, consisted, according to the official returns, of 10,933 oz. of gold, and 72,896 oz. of silver; of which 6,410 oz. of gold and 1,036 oz. of silver were shipped for the Mauritius, 71,860 oz. of silver and 690 oz. of gold for Van Diemen's Land, and 3,833 oz. of gold for New York. TIMES.—By the advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 435,-1- per mark, which at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10Id. the ounce for standard gold gives an exchange of 13. 10-1, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 10, it follows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer at Hamburgh than at London. The premium on gold at Paris is 9 per milk, which at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10 1 ,-d. the ounce for standard gold gives an exchange of 25. 374, and the exchange Paris on Lond on at s h ort being 25. 55, it follows that gold is 0.70 per cent. lower at Paris than in London. The price of sovereigns at New York is 4.95, which esta blishes a par of exchange in paper of 111.37 per cent., and the course of excha nge at New York on London being 108 per cent., it follo ws t h at the exchange is 3.37 per cent. against England. MORNING Pos T. This was settling day in the Consol Market, and b ut little oth er b usiness was attended to. The variations in the price of Stocks continue, in the meanwhile, for t to be he quite unimportant in both Houses. ' Consols were quoted cy 9 931 buyers. Bogota papers to the sth of February have been received at the North and South American Coffee House. They state that the 49,933 arrobas of tobacco appropriated to the pay ment of the debt due from the Republic of New Granada to the Columbian bondholders were put up to auction on the 16th of January, but had not been disposed of, no purchaser having presented himself,,and that t h e property would there foreof Mar c h, according to the regu lationbe up amain s and aconin o conditions hntspe 9th c 4hed in the official Gazette. Accouats had been received at Carthagena of a beautiful steam-vessel, called the Susannah, havi ng b een launched i n Baranquilla, a circumstance which is much dwelt u p on as a most important achievement, no foreign v esse l h av i ng b een found capable of navigating the river upon which she is to be employed (the Magdalena.) The S usannah measures 140 Spanish feet in length, 28A- in breadth, and 7in depth. She draws only 13 inches of water, and even when s h e h as h er ma chinery and cargo on board she will only draw 2i- feet. Her timbers are exclusively of picked ced ar o f the best quality. The plan of this vessel is, it is added, novel, and her con struction very strong. BARON DE HABER v. DON CARLOS. The Sun was the only Newspaper which noticed, on the following day, the decision in the Lord Mayor's Court on the important cause of Baron de Haber v. Don Carlos, given in 'avour of the plaintiff. We have since been much surprised to find the whole of our Contemporaries imposed upon by a fictitious report of this case, sent to them as having been tried on Monday, whereas it was decided on Friday morning. The verdict, as it would appear from the report of our Contem poraries, is not in favour of the plaintiff; and to set the public right we subjoin the record of the Court : " Five thousand certificates, bonds, paper writings, and securities in writing, bearing date a certain day and year therein mentioned, to wit, the 6th day of February, 1836, by each of which various sums of money therein mentioned were expressed to be secured to the holder thereof. " Verdict for the plaintiff for 2,600 certificates, or paper writings, part of the 5,000 within mentioned." None but the Carlist party could have been capable of so gross and artful an imposition upon our Contemporaries as to falsify a verdict given in a Court of law. No language is sufficiently strong to express our disgust of a party who have recourse to such means, with a view to deprive the most devoted:of their adherents of his rights, and to depre ciate and rob him of the securities awarded to him, as a por tion only of the just debt due to him by Don Carlos. We hope that Baron de Haber will now be convinced of the ingratitude of the author of the Durango Decree, in whose cause he has employed his fortune, and devoted his time and talents. On this subject Baron de Haber has addressed the following letter to us : TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-It is no difficult matter to surmise a reason for in serting the report of this case in the papers of the 10th inst., five days after the trial, nor the quarter from whence that re port emanated; it is right, however, that the public should he informed there is not a shadow of objection to my right to re cover, nor of doubt as to the impropriety which should have compelled me to have recourse to such a proceeding, for the purpose of obtaining repayment of advances made upwards of four years ago, which legally as well as morally speaking it ought to have been the defendant's first duty to provide for. It is unnecessary to say more than that as between me and the garnishee, it was not necessary to enter, nor could I have been allowed to enter, into any explanation of the purposes for which the certificates in question were placed in the hands of the garnishee by Don Carlos. I was advised it was sufficient for me that I found them there, and attached them, and thus it became matter of surmise, and of surmise only, to the Learn ed Judge before whom the case was set down, what was the value of the certificates, or for what purpose they were placed in the hands of the garnishee, and he threw out some obser vations which were not considered of moment, or which ren dered explanation necessary, nor was it suspected that they could have been tortured into the apparent opinion, expressed on a case not fully before him. The simple question for adjudi cation is, I repeat was whether these certificates were or were not the property of Don Carlos, and in the possession of the garnishee. The Learned Judge doubted if they were of value it was not necessary in that stage of proceeding to shew they were, but they have been since appraised by two freemen of the city to me at a large amount. I am, Sir, your most obedient, 40, St. James's-place, April 10, 183 S. DE HABER. THE SLTN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1838. GERMAN PAPERS. Music', APRIL 30.—The Government JoUrnal of to-day announces that his Majesty the King has been pleased to ap point Charles Von Abel to be Minister of the Interior. BERLIN, MARCH 23.—The following is the letter of his Excellency Von Rochow to several citizens of Elburg, re specting the Address to the seven Gottingen Professors : " In reply to your communication of the last month, in the which you have sent me the address to the Counsellor and Professor Albrecht, signed by several citizens of Elburg, hereby inform you that it has filled me with surprise and dis pleasure. If I will allow that it was only scruples of conscience that induced Professor Albrecht to consider the oath proposed to him to be such as he could not take, I am as far from finding the judgment on the conduct of his Majesty the King of Hanover expressed in the declaration of Albrecht and his Gottingen colleagues to be thereby justified or even excused, that I look upon it as a piece of presumption, equally inconsiderate and blameable, and even punishable according to the laws of this kingdom. The subscribers of the address have rendered themselves justly liable to the same censure, by approving and commending that declaration, thus making its principles their own. It becomes the subject to pay due obedience to his King and Sovereign, in executing the commands given him, and to satisfy his mind with the respon sibility which the power appointed by God takes on itself, and it does not become him to estimate the actions of the hand of the State by the standard of his narrow views, and arrogantly presume to give a public judgment on their legality. I must, therefore, call it a very lamentable error if the subscribers of the address have thought they perceived in the conduct of the Gottingen Professors a defence of legal order, a resistance to arbitrary authority, whereas they ought to have looked on it as an unbecoming opposition, a presumptuous meddling. You have, however, been guilty of a still more deplorable error, Vs hen you fancy that such sentiments and notions are shared by all good citizens; this, thank God, is so far from being the case, that lam convinced the great majority will seriously disapprove of your proceedings and regret that the error of these unauthorised authors of the address should have cast a suspicion on the goad and patriotic inha bitants of the town of Elburg. I leave it to you to commu nicate this to the subscribers of the address. ( Signed) " V. Rocnow, " Minister of the Interior and Police." " To M. Ivan Rieseu, Merchant at Elburg. " Berlin, Jan. 13, 1838." VIENNA, MARCH 30.—The latest accounts from Herman_ stadt, say that the Archduke Ferdinand, of Este, will close the Diet of Transylvania, at the end of the month. His Imperial Highness means to arrive here on the 11th of next month. The subscriptions for the sufferers by the inundation, continue !o be most abundant. The last accounts from Pcsth say, that about a thousand dead bodies had been taken from sonic of the fallen houses. AUSTRIAN FUNDS—Virxxa, MARCH 31. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents 100 1 4 Three per Cents 81. 4 4 Bank Shares 1.4 , 1*4 —Allgesneine Zeitung:Apri! 3. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 9. Money. 13,115. Actual Debt, 2!4 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A moil Syndic, -1 per cent 95 95% Ditto, ditto, 3!,. per cent 79% 80 Commercial Company, 4' , per cent IB4N, 1•51 A Ditto (IM2 and 1833) 5 per cent. - 101 Loan 1836, 4 per cent. — Ditto 1837, 6 per cent. Exchange on London, One month.— Two months PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Aram 5. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. ... .......... ...10.2% loi) 4 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 103 102 / . • Exchange on London, three months ... 6 257.4 —Prussian State Gazette, April 6. " A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD."—We are requested to state, that the new work, entitled " A Voy a o, 'e round the World, during the years 1835, 1836, and 18 3 7 including a Narrative of an Embassy to the Sultan of M us: cat, and the King of Siam," by W. S. W. Ruscheuberger, M.D., Surgeon to the expedition, in 2 vols. Bvo., with plates and charts, will be published by Mr. Bentley, New Burling ton-street (Publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty), on the 14th instant. Agents:—for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Brrdfute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. Orders received by all booksellers. COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.—Saturday morning workmen commenced the erection of scaffolding immediately between the roof of the central arcade, for the purpose of in troducing glazed skylights on each side of the slants from the centre of the ceiling, which will obviate the inconvenience of the gloom in bad weather. The alteration has been long needed, and will, when finished, be a decided improvement. The expense is exclusively borne by his Grace the Duke of Bedford. GLASGOW POST-OFFICE.—In addition to our former announcements, we have only to state, that the inquiry by the public prosecutor is still going on : it would be unfair, therefore, to say more at present, than that one of the clerks has been committed to prison.--Scots Times. BOY STOLEN.—Some weeks ago a young lad was enticed away from his home in Goole, by some sweeps. Since then he has been roaming about the country with them, until last week, when he was taken up at Selby by the constable, who immediately caused him to be conveyed to his disconso late parents. —Hull Observer. On Sunday a large quantity of furze, on the Ne thermoor farm, the property of W. H. F. Talbot, Esq., of Lacock Abbey, was discovered to be in flames, and previous to sufficient assistance being rendered, about four acres were destroyed. It is believed the fire was the act of an incendiary. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKRT, APRIL 6.—There has been more business doing in sugars this week, at moderate prices, comparatively : but all the transactions indicate exces sive caution on the part of the buyers, and an apprehension that, the more limited their purchases, the less chance of doing wrong. Much profit seems out of the question, and there is no desire to incur a loss by buying too freely.—Bristol illereury Monday afternoon an inquest was held before T. Stirling, Esq., Coroner, and a highly respectable jury, at the Waterman's Arms, Old Brentford, on view of the body of Mr. Joseph Fox, aged sixty-four years, a gentleman of property, who terminated his existence in the following fearfully deter mined manner:—Mr. James Hatton, of Albany House, Al bany-place, Old Brentford, deposed that the deceased, who was a single man, and retired from business, had resided at witness's house some years. For some time he had been in a low, nervous, desponding state, but no fears were entertained that he would lay violent hands on himself. On Saturday evening, about a quarter-past eight o'clock, within five mi nutes after witness had left deceased's room, which was on the first floor, he heard a noise as if some person had fallen on the floor, and, on running up stairs to ascertain the cause, he was horror-struck at finding the deceased weltering in blood. Witness immediately sent for Dr. Cooper, but before his arrival deceased had expired. Witness was not aware of any cause for the deceased's despondency. The jury then proceeded to view . the body, which was lying on a bed in the deceased's sleeping-room, It presented a most frightful ap pearance, the head being nearly severed from the body. There were also several dreadful gashes on the deceased's arms and legs, which were frightfully scored, the deceased having cut at the arteries, with the position of which he was evidently well acquainted. On their return they found a verdict of— Temporary Deracgement." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, MoNnAr. The Craven Stakes of 10 sovs. each ; for three years old, 6st ; four, Bst. 41b ; five, Bst. 131 b ; six and aged, 9st. 51b. A.F. Handicap Sweepstakes of JO sovs. each, for three and four years old. Ab. M. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for four years old and up- Wards. T.Y.C. The Twenty-Fourth Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft. Ab. M. Untried stallions or mares allowed 31bs ; if both, 51b. 17 Subs. _ Mr. Thornhill's ch. c. by St. Patrick, out of Maria; Mr. Thorn hill's b. c. by St. Patrick, out of Surprise; Lord Lichfield's f. by Bedlamite, out of Zillah (m. untried) ; Mr. G. Walker's b. f. Constance, by Partisan, out of Quadrille ; Mr. G. Walker's b. c. Gonfalon, by Partisan, out of Pauline; Duke of Grafton's f. (dead), by Zinganee, out of Pastille (h. untried) ; Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. by Sultan, out of Variety ; Mr. H . ouldsworth's b. f. L a d y S op hi a, by Brutandorf, out of Fanny Davies; Lord Jersey's c. by Buzzard, out of Cobweb; Lord Jersey's c. by Cetus, out of Sister to Cob web (h. untried) ; Colonel Peel's b. c. (dead) by Cain, out of Garcia ; Colonel Peel's c. Vauban, by Defence, out of Electress ; Mr. Chifney's ch. c. (dead) by Rowton, out of Emiliana's dam (h. untried) ; Mr. Cookes's b. f. Barcarolle, by Stumps, out of Katha rine ; Lord Chesterfield's f. by Priam, out of Rowton's dam (h. untried); Mr. Ridsdale's e. (dead) by Tramp, or Comus, out of Linda (m. untried). Sweepstakes of 150 sovs. each, h. ft., for fillies, Bst. 71b. A.F. Duke of Portland's f. by Zinganee, out of Ruth ; Lord Exeter's f. Romania, by Sultan, out of Ramona; Lord Chesterfield's f. Ca• roline Elvina, by Tramp, out of Babel ; Lord Tavistock's f. by Taurus, out of Whisk's dam (allowed 31b.); Mr. Greville's f. Mo rella, Sister to Mango. Match, 300, 100 ft. T.111.51.—Mr. Oshaldeston's Mahomctan, Bst. 71b, agst Mr. Greville's Mango, Bst. 21b. TWESDAY. Fifth Tuesday's Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sous. each, h. ft Ab. M. Untried stallions and mares allowed 31b ;if both, .51b. Lord Exeter's f. Mecca, by Sultan, out of Miss Cantley ; Duke of Grafton's f. Olio, by Reveller, oat of Whizgig ; Colonel Peel's gr. c. St. Vitus, by Bedlamite, out of Fille de Joie ; Mr. Chifney's ch. c. Young Rowton, by Rowton, eut of Emiliana (h. untried) ; Mr. Chifney's f. by Rowton, out of Pigmy (h. untried) ; Mr. Chif ney's ch. c. (dead), by Rowton, out of Emiliana's dam (h. untried). The Coffee-Room Stakes of 50 sous. each, for fillies, Bst. 41b. each, out of mares that never produced a winner before the Craven Meeting, 183 G. D.M. Colonel Peel's f. Wave, by Defence, out of Versatility; Mr. Bat son's f. by Reveller, out of Acacia; Lord Exeter's f. by Sultan, out of Salate ; Duke of Richmond's f. Guava, by The Colonel, out of Gulnare ; Mr. Vansittart's br. f. by Humphrey Clinker, out of Magawiska ' • Lord Albemarle's ch. f. Masquerade, by Mamelake, out of Mi ss Tree ; Duke of Richmond's b. f. Zipporah, by Moses, out of Elizabeth. 'I he Oatlands Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., and only 10 sovs. ft. if declared on or before the 30th of December. D.I. The 10 Boys. fts. to go to the owner of the second horse. v Lord Suffield's Cowboy, 4 yrs, Bst ; Mr. Wilson's Quicksilver, 4 yrs, 7st. 111 b ; Lord Suffield's Turban, 6 yrs, ist. 71b ; Mr. Osbal deston's Mie Mac, 4 yrs, 7st. 51b ; Lord Exeter's Corban, 4 yrs, 6st. 111 b. Four pay 10 soya ft. Match, 1001., 11. it. R.M.—Duke of Rutland's c. by Buzzard, out of Flame's dam, agst Lord Southampton's c. by Hercules, out of Rarity, Bst. 71b. each. Match, 200/., h. ft. T.Y.C.—Mr. Thornhill's Saintfoin, Bst. 101 b, agst the Duke of Rutland's f. by Hawker, dam by Pan, out of Vale Royal, Bst. Match, 100/ , h. ft. T. Y.C.—Mr. Greville's Osprey (dead), Bst. 71b, agst Lord Chesterfield's Anchorite, Bst. 31b. WEDNESDAY. Subscription Plate of 501. ; for the three yrs old, ist ; four, Bst. 71b ; and five, 9st. T. Y. C. The Column Stakes of 50 sous. each, h. ft., for three years old; colts, Bst. 71b; fillies, Bst. 41b. Those by untried stallions, or out of untried mares, allowed 31b; if both, 51b. R.M. 4. Colonel Peel's b. c. (dead) by Cain, out of Garcia ; *Colonel Peel's c. St. Vitus ; *Colonel Peel's c. Vauban ; Duke of Port land's c. by Tiresias, out of Souvenir (m. untried); Duke of Port land's c. by Taurus, out of Thebes (both untried) ; Duke of Port land's c. by Priam, out of Manto (horse untried) ; Duke of Port land's f. by Priam, out of Tragedy (both untried) ; Mr. W. Ed ward's e. Bullcalf, by Taurus, out of Destiny (both untried) ; Mr. Barrett's b. e. Quo Minus (late Cara Bey), by Zinganee (both un tried) ; Mr. Pettit's b. f. Anne Boleyn, by Taurus, out of Mary Anne (both untried) ; Mr. Cokes's b. f. Barcarolle; Mr. Cookes's gr. f. Almeria, by Stumps, out of Urbina (m. untried) ; Lord Lich field's f. Wet-day, by Priam, out of Whimsey (both untried) ; *Mr. J. Day's b. c. (dead) by Tranby, out of Busk (both untried); Mr. Greville's f. Morella ; Mr. Osbaldeston's c. Allerston, by Brutandorf, out of Peter Pindar's dam ; Mr. Houldsworth's ch. c. by Sultan, out of Torelli ; Lord Exeter's f. Velveteen, by Sultan, out of Velvet ; Lord Exeter's 1. Mecca ; Lord Exeter's f. by Red gauntlet, out of Varna. Those marked thus ) are engaged as against each only in the Column Stakes, in the further sum of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., to be void unless one of those nominations wins the Column Stakes. The Stockton Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., for the produce of mares covered in 1834 ; colts, Bst. 71b ; fillies, Bst. Sib. 1). M. Mr. Thornhill's b. c. by St. Patrick, out of Mercy ; Mr. Biggs's f. Clara, by St. Patrick, out of Whisk ; Mr. Newton' s c h. c . b y Cetus, out of Jea nne tt on ; Duk e o f Portand's c. by Priam, out of Manto ; Mr. C. Wilson's b. c. by Voltaire, dam by Cervantes, out of Juggler's dam. Swee - itakes of 100 sovs. each, h._ft, ; colts, Bst. 71b ; fillies, Bst. 4th. D. si. Lord Suffield's Millbank ; Lord Suffield's ch. c. Bamboo, by Cain, dam by Picton ; General Grosvenor's oh. c. Daedalus, by Buzzard, out of learia ; Mr. W. Edivards's b. f. Flea (dead), by Buzzard, out of Clansman's dam. Sweepstakes of 100 says. each, h. ft. D.M. Lord Jersey's c. Abdallah, by Ishmael, out of Aba, Bst. 71b. ; Lord Chesterfield's f. by Priam, out of Katharina, Bst. 41b. ; Duke of Beaufort's c. Falconbridge, by Shakspeare, out of Ton tine, Bst. 41b. Match, 200 h. ft. D.M.—Lord Chesterfield's Scroggins, Bst. 101 b., against Mr. Thornhill's Egcria, Bst. 11b. THURSDAY. Post Produce Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft. D.M. Each sub scriber named two untried mares, covered by untried stallions; . one to the post. Lord Exeter's f. by Redgauntlet, out of Varna ; Lord Lichfield's f. by Priam, d. by Whisker, out of Lord Derby's Urgancla; Duke of Portland's f. by Zinganee, out of Ruth ; Duke of Portland's c. by Taurus, out of Thebes. Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft., for three-year-old colts, Bst. 71b., and fillies Bst. 31b. D.M. Lord Exeter's brother to Cactus ; Mr. Cookes's c. Wilibert, by Waverley, d. by Cervantes, gr. d. by Camillus ; Lord Jersey's c. by Buzzard, out of Cobweb ; Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Don John, by Tramp, or Waverley, out of Lepanto's darn. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. ; for colts, Bst. 71b. ; and fillies, Bst. 41b. ; got by untried stallions. R.M. Duke of Grafton's by Taurus, out of Dervise's darn ; Lord Jersey's c. by Cetus, out of sister to Cobweb; Mr. Wilson's f. by Medera, dam by Figaro, out of Cora ; Lord Chesterfield's f. by Priam, out of Rowton's darn , Mr. W. Edwards's c. Bullcalf. The Claret Stakes. —A Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft. ; for four years old colts, Bst. 71b. ; and fillies, Bst. 21b. D. I. Lord Exeter's Hybiscus, Mr. Sadler's Defender, Mr. Greville's Mango, Lord Chesterfield's Jereed. The Berkeley-square Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. ; for three years old colts, Bst. 71b. ; and fillies, Bst. 41b. R.M. Lord Exeter's c. Alemdar, by Sultan, out of Marinello ; Lo r d Lichfield's c. T a bleau, by Emancipation, o u t o f s i s t er t o P ortra i t ; Colonel Peel's ch c. Enoch, by Cain, out of the Philosopher's dam ; Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Chemist, by Zinganee, out of Oxygen; Lord Chesterfield's f. Industry, by Priam, out of ' Ar ac hne ; Lord A l b e marle na. Mr. W. Edward's ch. c. Inuendo, by the Colon Ursula of Scandal ; M r . P oyntz ' s f . C a li sto, b y CGaomldeplino;ut of; Duke of Richm on d s C. by Sultan, out of Duke of Rutland's Tivoli, brother to Tiber. Subscription Plate of 50/. ; for three years old, 6st. 71b. ; four years Bst. 51b. ; five years, Bst. 131 b. ; six years, and aged, 9st. 41b. Sweepstakes of 100 soy. ea 71b ch, . R.M. h. ft. ; for thr ee years o ld , Bst. Duke of Cleveland's ch. c. by St. Patrick, out ef Trapes ; Lord Tavistock's b. c. by Stainborough, out of Aurora ; Greville's b. f. Morella. The Port Stakes. —A Sweepstakes of 100 soy. each, h. ft. ; colts, Set. 71b. ; filli e s, Set. 41b. ; not named in th e Cl aret. T.M.M. The second to withdraw his stake. Duke of Rutland's Rat-Trap, Lord Suffield's Caravan, Lord Exe ter's Troilus,' Lord Exeter's Dardanelles, Mr. Wreford's Winto „ian, Mr. Wreford's c. Wisdom, Mr. Thornhill's Egeria, Mr. Sowerby's Ruby , Osbaldeston's Mahom e t an , L ord Jersey's Achnet Lord Berners's Phos p horus, Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Epirus, own Brother ' to Elie ; Lord Chesterfield's Critic. Sweepstakes of .50 sous. each ; for three-yrs-old fillies, Bst. 41h. R.M. Fillies g ot by. Sultan or Velociped e , or out of Mares which ever bred a winner of the Derby or Oaks, 2,000 guineas or 1,000 Guineas Stakes, to carry 71b. extra • the , fillies to be bona fide the property of Members of the Coffee-room at New market. General Grosvenor's The Rubber, by Tranby, out of the Odd T r i c k ; Duke of Grafton's f. Unique, by Reveller, out of Turquoise; Mr. Walker's b. f. Constance, by Partisan, out of Quadrille ; Mr. 13atson's f. by Reveller, out of Acacia ; Lord Exeter's f. by Lamp lighter, out of Palais Royal ; Lord Albemarle's f. Barcarolle, by Emilius, out of Bravura. - • ---- - SATURDAY. M atc h, 200, h. ft. D.M. —Lord Lichfield's c. Tableau, by Eman cipation, out of Sister to Portrait, against the Duke of Portland's c. by Taurus, out of Thebes; Bst. 71b. each. match, 200, h. ft. R.M.—Lord Lichfield's c. H. 8., by Bedla mite, out of Terry Alt's dam, against the Duke of Portland's c. by Priam, out of Manto ; Bst. 71b. each. POST-OFFICE INCONSISTENCIES.—The postage from Brompton to Loughton, 15 miles, 3d. ; to Epping, two miles further, on the same road, 17 miles, 7d. A letter directed to Epping, and posted at Loughton after four o'clock e. 51, is delivered at Epping in 42 hours, the distance two miles and a half, the postage 7d. This letter remains at Loughton , till the foll ow i ng morn i ng , i s b roug ht to London, remains tnere till eight the same night, arrives at Epping at 10, and is delivered at half-past 8 next morning, and travels 28 miles. The mail passes from Epping and through Lough ton whilst the letter is lying at Loughton, besides not less than four coaches ; but the Post-office prefers a costly Hum phrey Clinker on a half-fed, lame, slow beast, to a cheap, speedy coach, for the carriage of letters !—Post Circular. CAPTAIN IVIARRYAT.—It would be worse than useless to say a word as to the merit of these stories, which are now familiar to almost every reader, and are universally acknowledged to be sterling portraitures of character and mariners, especially of life afloat. But the style of the p resent publication (the Standard Novels) must recommend them to every one, for they may be taken in the pocket on a country excursion ; or, better still, on a voyage by sea, where they will enhance the enjoyment in a ten-fold degree. Each tale is comprised in a single volume, and they arc elegantly embel lished with f ront i spieces and vignette titles o f some o f the most interestin g scenes, engraved in a first-rate manner by Great bach. The two stories last published are " Japhet in Search of a Fath er ," and The King's Own," which form the latest volumes of " The Standard Novels and Romances."— Cale donian Mercury. SN°lv•—April has brought us showers (some of them of snow), but the sunshine, if we are to have any, is yet all to come. So far as the month has yet gone, the weather has been extremely cold. On Monday morning we had a heavy fall of snow, and since then a good deal of snow has fallen.— Carlisle .Tournal. Some of the Brighton boats brought into that town on Friday a few mackarel, which sold readily at ninety-five shillings per hundred. LAW OF COPYRIGHT. (From the Morning Papers.) In the iliorniny Post of last Friday we entered into the consideration of the proposed amendment of the law of copyright by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Bill. We then stated what the present law of copyright is, and what are the changes proposed to be effected by the new Bill, in order to afford additional encouragement to authors. We also gave our reasons for considering the present law ano malous in its operation as respected the public generally, and unfavourable to those who produced literary works of great and lasting merit, and we cited examples in illustra tion and support of our opinion. We have now, according to our promise, to consider the objections which publishers and printers have started to the proposed amendment of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and which they are taking pains to render as formidable as possible. Not only in London, but in distant parts of the country, we find filet publishers and printers, believing their interests to be seri ously endangered by the proposed " additional encourage ment to authors," are actively bestirring themselves against the Bill, and writing letters to Members of Parliament, to bespeak their hostility to it when it shall next come before the House of Commons. We have already stated—and here, too, we have had the satisfaction of resting upon the authority of one of the greatest men that ever adorned and dignified literature, by the devotion of exalted mind to the praise and the promulgation of exalted virtue—we have, we say, already stated that, as friends of literature, we look with respect and gratitude to its commercial patrons, the publishers, and we are heartily sorry that, upon the present occasion, we are obliged to take the opposite side to that which they have chosen. We most readily and cheerfully acknowledge that emong those publishers who are now actively opposing the Bill for affording addititional encouraerement to authors are to be found not only es honourable, but as liberal, commercial men as ever lived—men to whom all the authors of the present day, and especially the most eminent authors, are greatly indebted for the large and liberal spirit in which they have carried on their business—but we think that, however willing they may be to afford justice, and more than bare jus tice, as individuals, they lose sight of jurisprudential justice in their views of the Bill now before Parliament. We have received a good many printed papers of remon strance against Mr. Talfourd's Bill, some of them authen ticated and some anonymous, and more than one of them, we regret to say, evidently prepared by persons with much more temper for abuse than talent for argument. We shall, however, at present confine ourselves to one authentic remonstrance, which certainly deserves all the respect that any statement coming from a body of men eminent in their class, and unimpeachable in their character, is en titled to. This remonstrance issues from a meeting of booksellers and publishers, which was attended by Counsel and Solicitors. Mr. Longman was in the chair ; and when we add that Mr. Murray, Mr. Whittaker, Mr. Knight, Mr. Colburn, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Rive ington, Mr. Fellowes, &c. &c. &c., were present, we need not add that the meeting was as important as the eminence of its members in the publishing world could make it. At this meeting a petition to Parliament against Mr. Tal fourd's Bill was proposed and agreed to ; and it is to some parts of the remonstrance contained in that petition that we mean at present to address ourselves. The petitioners say that " of the books and works published during the last fifty years and upwards the copyright of the great ma jority of the same has been sold and assigned absolutely, by the authors of the same, previously to publication, for valuable consideration, and such books and works have been first published by the assignees under such as signments, and not by the authors, at a very great outlay and expense to such publishers, very few authors having either the capital or the courage or connection to embark in such expensive and extensive speculation as the introduc tion to the public of new works." All this we grant is very true, but it is to be remembered that those absolute sales and assignments were, and could be, only sales and assign ments of that amount and degree of property in the crea tion of their mind s w hi c h the law of the time allowed to au thors. If the amended —or, lest that word should be dis pleasing, if the altered—law should give an additional pro perty to authors in their works,is it reasonable or conformable with the general analogy of law that such alteration should have a retrospective effect, and connect itself with an as signment made ten or twenty years before such alteration was ever thought of ? We submit that it is not. If A, being the owner of a lease of premises for twenty-eight years, assigns the same to B for a valuable consideration, and if thereafter, and during the continuance of the lease, the freehold or fee of the premises becomes the property of A, it is never dreamed of that because B has bought all the interest which A formerly had in the premises, lie therefore becomes entitled to the new and additional inte rest which a change of circumstances has vested in A. We submit, therefore, that instead of complaining that the new law proposes to vest the copyright in the authors of works, at the expiration of the term which the present law makes the absolute term of that description of property, the publishers should comfort themselves with their own statement---viz., that " authors have not the capital, or courage, or connection" to embark in publication on their own account, and therefore they will he very glad to treat with the publishers for the sale to them, on fair terms, of whatever additional property in the coinage of their brain the law of the land shall happen to give them. If the Le gislature shall happen to give any such additional property , to authors, we are sure that the publishers, upon consi deration, will perceive that it is not reasonable that they should reap all the advantage. The petition goes on to state that the professed object of the Bill before the Com mons is, " to extend to authors, not merely of all books thereafter to be published, but of those already published, an extension of the term of copyright for sixty years more than is now allowed by law, to the total exclusion of all existing copyrights, and in breach and violation of all subsisting contracts between authors and assigness." Now, with all deference to the barristers and solicitors who appear to have drawn up this petition, the professed object of the Bill before Parliament is, we believe, here mis-stated. It is not (as we understand the Bill) to extend the term of copyright sixty years beyond what is now al lowed by law, but to extend it sixty years from the death of the author, and in most cases part of that sixty years would belong not to the author but to the present assig ness of the copyright. Thus, supposing a work to have been sold absolutely to Mr. Longman last year—supposing the author of it to die next year—and supposing that in the meantime Mr. Talfourd's Bill becomes law, without any alteration from its present terms—what would be the result ? Why, the assignment to Mr. Longman will last for twenty-eight years, that being the term now allowed by law for copyright. It will be his until 1865, and in 1865 it will revert to the representatives of the author, and be theirs until 1899—that is sixty years from his death, which by the hypothesis, takes place in 1839. The new law would give this author bnt thirty-four years more than the pre sent law, and the assignee would have all that, according to law, he could have calculated upon having when he bought the work in 1837, viz., the copyright for the life of the author, or for twenty eight years. How then can it he complained that the new law would " violate subsisting contracts ?" We beg leave to affirm, on the other side, that it carefully respects exist-• ing contracts, and only suffers a new interest to spring up at their expiration. The petition complains that publishers having purchased the copyrights of works have made very expensive additions to them, and that the operation of the proposed extension of term will be, that at the expiration of the assignees' present interest the original works only will belong to the representatives of the authors, while the cor rections, alterations, and additions will belong to the as signees ; and the (feet of such operation will be, that the assignees will either entirely lose all benefit arising from their labour and expense in making such improvements, or may be driven to stE-purchase of the representatives of the authors their extended term of copyright. Now we grantthe truth of this statement, but we respectfully submit to the parties concerned that there is no such hardship in this re purchase as they seem to think. 'We cannot indeed admit that in strictness it could be called a re-purchase. It would be a new purchase of a thing which was not in legion na tura at the time the first purchase was made. All that the publishers of these improved and corrected works can have bought is a copyright for the life of the author or 23 years. That copyright they will have though Mr. Tal fourd's Bill were passed fifty times over in different shapes. But if his Bill creates a new property beyond the 28 years, that they will not have without purchasing it from the author's representatives. If a man buys a house in the Regent's Park, or in Belgravc-square, and makes ever so many and ever so expensive " corrections and additions," he will be, or his representatives will he, at the end of a term of years, just in the condition which is contemplated in the publishers' petition. No man can buy in the Re gent's Park or in Belgrave-square more than a term of years, just as no publisher can at present buy more than a life, or twenty-eight years' duration of a copyright. The man whose lease expires thinks it no hardship that he must either dissever his improvements, and depart with them, leaving the original property in the hands of the owner, or purchase another term over and above that which it was possible for him to purchase in the first instance. He is not horror-struck at the idea of " re-purchase" in such a case, and neither—as we venture to submit—should be the publishers. No doubt they would obtain the enlarged term of copyright, in such cases as they describe, at a low rate ; for if they who possess the improvements, and cor rections, and additions did not purchase it, it is probable I that no one else would. We have now gone as far as the limits of a newspaper article will allow, but there is much more to be said upon this subject, to which we shaL ad dress ourselves hereafter.—Morning Post. SERGEANT TALFOURD'S COPYRIGHT BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. Sir,—Your able article in Friday's Post on Sir. Sergeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill cannot fail to bring conviction to every unprejudiced mind. The copyright of Milton's Paradise Lost became ultimately? the property of that " left-legged genial-gentleman-book-- seller," Jacob Tonson. By it Tonson realised a large part of • his very huge fortune ; and so fond was he of having known the means by which he attained much of his income, that lie has even let posterity know it, by portraits of himself, still preserved, where he is holding a copy of his duodecimo edi tion of Paradise Lost in one hand, and a bag of money in the other. Milton and the family of Milton got in all twenty-eight: pounds for Paradise Lost. Now let us suppose that the poet's widow had reserved to herself and family the copyright of her husband's work, and Mir. Talfourd's Bill had been in force, in what a different condition of life had the descendants of Milton been ? There had been no necessity for a benefit play for his daughter, or of seeking to obtain the humble office of a parish clerk for his grandson. It has been calculated that since Burns's death there have been between ninety and a hundred different editions of his works. Now suppose that only fifty editions had appeared, the remuneration for the publication of such editions to the widow of Burns and his children would have added, if not to the luxuries, at least to the comforts of life. A moderate price would not have diminished the demand for Burns's poems. The widow of Bloomfield applied in vain, it is said, for parish relief. There is no copyright in The Farmer's Boy, it has been the property of the public for some years. Surely if Mr. Talfourd's Bill had been in force Mrs. Bloomfield would have enjoyed from the sale of that which she has in justice a right to, enough to keep body and soul together without soliciting relief from a workhouse. Mr. Lockhart states, that the passing of Mr. Talfourd's Bill Hill free the house of Abbotsford from all its incturibre.nee.s! Where is the estate which poets inherit after death. Is that which is denied to them to be denied to their children ? Are authors to be the only unprotected class of men in the kingdom? Are robbery and piracy to be permitted on the high seas of literature ? Is fame of itself sufficient reward—is it food—is it clothing ? " In lieu of all patrons," writes the author of the Seasons, " that have been, or are, or will be i❑ England, I wish we had one good Act of Parliament for securing to authors the property of their own works. And can it be that those who impress paper with what constitutes the best and everlasting riches of all civilized nations, and of all agea, shall have less property in the paper so enriched than those who deal in the rags which make that paper."—Letter to Aaron Hill, May 1736. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, P. C. In another column our readers will find an abstract of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's proposed Bill on the subject of copyright, the second reading of which was appointed for this (Wednesday) evening, though, for some cause which we cannot explain, we do not see the order in the vote paper. Judging from the paragraphs, pamphlets, and petitions, which the measure has already called forth from various quarters, we find that the opposition to it is such as few Bills, in ordinary circumstances, would have any chance to survive, especially when we look at the reason able, determined, and extensive co-operation with which that opposition is conducted. At this moment our table is literally covered with the hostile documents alluded to, emanating variously from booksellers, printers, bookbinders, paper manufacturers, typefounders, nay, even authors them selves—all concurring in the opinion that the learned Ser jeant's Bill, though generally admitted to be well intentioned, cannot pass into a law without pro ducing the most serious injury, not only to the parties more immediately engaged in the mechanical production of hook property, but also to the very class whose literary labours it specially professes to protect, and still more to the public at large, the most paramount interest of all. To Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, as well as to his opponent: upon this question, it is highly creditable that not the slightest at tempt is made to treat either his measure or his motives with any thing but respect ; and if, after having given the matter our most deliberate and dispassionate consideration, we feel constrained to add our own conscientious dissent to the learned gentleman's proposals, we trust that, while expressing our sentiments with all freedom and firmness, nothing shall escape from us to disturb the good spirit in which the discussion has hitherto been carried on. At the same time, the public must be distinctly apprised that the opposition to this Copyright Bill : among . the persons best qualified to judge of its merits, is of the most earnest and serious kind. They deprecate it as au experiment which will not even bear a trial. They fore see in its provisions a most calamitous disturbance, not only to the vast interests and relations of literary com merce as regards demand and supply, but to the in vested capital and daily livelihood of many thousands of our countrymen ; and even with all the reserves interested parties which the representations of these parties must naturally be viewed, cur conviction is that their reasonings and apprehensions as to the coulmon injury which this project will inflict upon writers and readers in general are such as demand loudly that.. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd should abandon his plan , or not, that the Legislature should peremptorily interdict The objections adducible against the details of the Bill are both numerous and insurmountable ; hut, independently of this, we hold that the fundamental principle upon which it proceeds is essentially a vicious one, involving not only the evil of partial legislation in favour of a particular class (whether for their real benefit, or otherwise, is not at pre sent the question), but the establishment of a precedent which, in its general application to analogous cases, as equity would require, could only subserve the supposed in terests of a limited portion of the community, at the ob vious expense of the whole. That the learned author of lon may work up a very affecting tale respecting the in sufficient remuneration received by some of our elder men of genius for works which now rank among the impe rishable literature of the country, occasions us no further surprise than that such obsolete cases should be pleaded by him as an argument for enlarging protective enactments to later writers, who being already enabled to dispose of their productions, either wholly or in part, under statutory ad vantages and popular demands, unknown to their earlier predecessors, are neither subjected to injustice nor peti tioning for a Parliamentary remedy. It is right that au thors should be paid according to the red value of their publications ; and as that value is not always ascertainable until their several works shall have been before the public for some years, it is also right that their exclusive property in such works should be extended to such a term as, while furnishing sufficient scope both for establishing their popu rity and for reaping its fair profits, shall yet be so restricted as not to operate injuriously upon the literary enterprise and advancing intelligence of the country. Now, precisely of this description is the existing law of copyright, which, without leaning to extremes in any direction administers equal j ustice to the individuals who write books, to those who manufacture and vend them, as well as to the public at large. That under the present statutes Serjeant Talfourd may be able to pro duce certain hypothetical eases, or even a few real ones, wherein authors have sustained peculiar hardship by the ultimate harvest of their labours having been reaped by second hands, is a very good argument why such authors should exercise a shrewd circumspection in turning their li terary rights to the greatest possible advantage, both pre ; sent and prospective ; but considered as a reason for invest ing them with a Parliamentary license, first to feel their way I to a profitable popularity, and then, by an almost indefinite monopoly, to spunge an admiring puhlic, as well as to encroach upon the just rights of parties whose mecha nical skill may have been scarcely less conducive to their eminence than their own talents—this, we say, is pre posterous in the extreme. With the sufficient protection already enjoyed, an author, like any other producer, should be left to dispose of his articles at the best market price he can get. If he think his work will be highly prized by posterity, let him make his bargain, and print copies ac cordingly ; and if he deem the terms of an offering nur chaser inadequate, let him try the entire trade ; failing all of whom, the speculation of giving his book to the world may either be disposed of in part, or retained exclusively in his own hands. For 28 long years no bookseller or printer dare venture to invade his copyright. Gene rally speaking, the merits of a work are ascertained, and its principal profits reaped, within the half of the period ; nor can it be denied, as far as general justice is concerned, that the rare instances in which the efforts of talent or the investment of capital have failed to be suitably requited under the existing law of copyright, are circum scribed evils not to be compared with the preponderating benefits, the literary competition, the fair remuneration, the extensive mechanical industry, the cheap reading, and the consequent diffusion of knowledge, so universally and beneficially prevalent in the present state of things. Two pamphlets have been published upon this sub ject which eminently deserve Air. Serjeant Talfourd's attention—the one by Mr. Tegg, the experienced bookseller in Cheapside ; and the other by Mr. Robert Mudic, whose interest in the question, as the author of various popular works en moral and physical science, en titles his hostility to the Bill to very considerable weight. Both of these parties condemn the Bill in iota, chiefly on the twofold ground, that while it must inevitably ope rate as a great discouragemeut to cheap and useful reading, it will utterly fail to benefit the literary pro ducers, whose advantage it aims to secure. There is in Mr. Mudie's pamphlet a good deal of curious information, though by far the most important part of his remarks is contained in its latter pages, where he dissects and exposes the unsoundness of the entire m ay m p e o a s s si u b r l e prl.enseanfuture readers article, should the Learned Serjcaut persist ha project, w hi c h is scarcely probable, . ; but the mea n ti me , as with some le of Alr. the objectionable nature of the 13111 in some of its pros pective operations is shown up with greet conciseness and precision, both in a Parliamentary p et i t i on by the master printers, and alsoin a small fly she e t entitled Serjeant Tal fourd's Copyright Bill and the Printing Business, we pre